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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

legacy. In order to mitigate against the possibility that their established
ideas may threaten the establishment, they established secret laws
among themselves. In order to protect themselves from the wrath of ig-
norant people, they took refuge in Operative Masonry which contained
the discreet rules of their own trade. They inseminated this with their
ideas which later influenced the formation of the modern Speculative
Masonry we know today. 62
In the above quotation, Layiktez praises the societies that were the

origin of Masonry, and claims they kept themselves hidden to protect
themselves from "ignorant people." If we can leave aside this subjective
claim for a moment, we can understand from the quotation above that
Masonry is a present-day representation of societies that were founded in

the ancient pagan civilizations of Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece and
Rome. Of these three civilizations, the oldest is Egypt; it is possible, there-

fore, to say that the main source of Masonry is Ancient Egypt. (We saw
earlier that basic connection between this pagan tradition and modern
Masons is the Templars.)
It is necessary to recall at this point that Ancient Egypt was one of the

most referred to examples of a godless system as revealed by Allah in the
Qur'an. It is the true archetype of an evil system. Many verses relate to us
of the pharaohs that governed Egypt and their inner-circles, their cruelty,

injustice, wickedness and excesses. Moreover, the Egyptians were a per-
verse people, that acquiesced to the system of their pharaohs, and be-
lieved in their false gods.
Despite this, Masons maintain that their origins lie in Ancient Egypt,

and regard that civilization as praiseworthy. An article published in
Mimar Sinan praises the temples of Ancient Egypt as the "source of Ma-
sonic craft":

…The Egyptians founded Heliopolis (the Sun City) and Memphis and

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